kenya: Kenya voter registration experiment

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Kenya voter registration experiment

Description

This dataset is from a study entitled "Electoral Administration in Fledgling Democracies:Experimental Evidence from Kenya". The study worked with Kenya's electoral commission in 1,674 communities by assigning individuals to either a control/status quo group or one of several interventions to encourage voter registration: SMS reminders, a local administrator at a polling station, canvassing, a local admin and canvassing, or a local admin and SMS.

Usage

kenya

Format

A tibble with 1,989,680 observations and 11 variables:

treatment

factor variable that indicates either the control group or some combination of treatment factors: canvassing, SMS reminder, local administrator, local admin and SMS, local admin and canvassing

poverty

a double variable for the poverty rate of the voting block for those assigned to it

distance

a double variable for average distance from polling location for those assigned to it

pop_density

a double variable for the population density of individual's block

block

a character variable for the individual's voting block ID

poll_station

a character variable for the individual's polling station ID

rv13

a double variable for the number of registered voters at polling location during 2013

reg_byrv13

a double variable for registered voters at polling location during intervention period divided by registered voters at polling location during 2013

Author(s)

David Kane

Source

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/be58/c86f2366d5281d4800411d2dfcecd1a5c16a.pdf?_ga=2.260073289.590691361.1594131808-281689301.1594131808

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